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A09832	The hystories of the most famous and worthy cronographer Polybius discoursing of the warres betwixt the Romanes [and] Carthaginenses, a riche and goodly worke, conteining holsome counsels [and] wonderfull deuises against the incombrances of fickle fortune. Englished by C.W. Wherevnto is annexed an abstract, compendiously coarcted out of the life & worthy acts, perpetuate by our puissaunt prince king Henry the fift.; Historiae. English	Polybius.; Watson, Christopher, d. 1581.	1568 (1568)	STC 20097; ESTC S114792	81,252	276

inestimable aduauncement of pure religion calling his high court the last daye of Aprill in the towne of Leicester In the whiche parliament many commodious lawes were concluded diuers petitions moued were for that time deferred amongst which requestes one was that a complaynte exhibited in the parliament holden at Westminster in the eleuenth yere of Kyng Henry the fourth which by reason that the King was at that instant vexed with ciuile diuisiō intestine discord domesticall discention the prorogation of the parliament came to no effect might now be wel studied pondred and resolutely concluded The effect of which supplication was that all the temporal lands which in auncient times had ben deuoutly giuen nowe disordinately spent by the rude religious rablement other spiritual spitesoules whiche apishly vsurped the names of spirituall pastors myght well suffise to maintein to the honor of the Prince and defence of the realme fiftene honorable Erles fiften hundreth worshipful Knights six thousand and two hundreth gentle Esquiers and a hundreth almes houses for relief only of the poore néedie and impotent persones and the King to haue clerely to his priuate cōmoditie and amplifiyng of his tresury twenty thousand poūds with many other ample prouisions large values of the rakehellish otherwise called religious houses whiche I pretermit that was riotously spent by the panchplying porkheads This before remēbred supplicatiō was attentiuely noted much feared amongst the cursed companie of drousie dreaming Dromos I mean Baals Baldons that mungrel Massalians cruel churchrobbers whome it touched most in effect in so muche that the grosse Gospeller Ethnike Epicures beastly bellygods wic ked worldlyngs and spirituall shauelyngs were fallen in a pelting chafe the bloudy Bishoppes broyled the cullionly Cardinalles coured the proude Priours frouned the fat Abbots swet the pore Friers cursed the white Chanons chafed the poore Nunnes puled like Puttockes in conclusion all the sectarie Sathanists were sore displeased Now to finde a present preseruatiue for a mischeuous chaunce and a sanatiue tent for a déepe wound Caiphas clergie clustred mynding rather to play with the pliant réede thā stubburnely to stande with the stiffe Oke purposed rather to bowe than breake so that they agréed to offer vnto the King a mighty masse of money to stay the newe moued demaund The cause of this offer séemed to some of the craftie cullions and periured pilates neyther decent nor conuenient for the paterne lay so plaine before their eyes that they well foresawe and perfectly knew that if the commons once perceiued their legierdemaine and that by rewardes and offer of money they endeuoured them selues to resiste their request and petitiō that then they being stirred kindled with furie would not onely asprely raile but also worthily contemne them as priuy corrupters of Princes and ennimies to the publike vtilitie and importunatly cal vpon the Kings Maiestie and his honorable Lords temporall that they were like to bestowe both laboure charges and liuing Wherefore they determined vigilantly to forecast all chaunces that might preuaile or further theyr pretensed purpose and like an vngracious garde and as auctors and procurers of all mischieues and facinorous factes they intended to exterminate this the commons request oute of the Kings minde to obnebulate his senses with some glistering vaile or to replenish his brayne with some newe toy lest he shoulde fantasie or regarde their importunate petition The performance of which tended so much to Gods glorie and the aduancement of true religion and vertue Wherefore vpon a daye when the Kings Maiestie was set the parliament house vpon his imperiall throne Henry Chickley Archbishop of Cāterbury therto newly preferred which had ben a Monk of the cankred Carthusians sect a manne which had professed wilful pouertie in religion but to speake congruely in the relegation of religion yet hopping abroade waxed as lustie as a Marche hare or rather madde as wée maye tearme it hys mynde was incensed wyth the furious flames of lordelyke honoure Also thys peruerse Paule beyng a verie Saule accordyng to the rule of blessed Becket was so zealous in Gods religion that he regarded ten tymes more hys owne priuate commoditie than the sincere euangelicall doctrine as all the trayne of the dimigod hys filthie fraternitie did always concealyng double faces vnder theyr hoodes and counterfeacte coules but truelyer termed calues cases after lowe obeysaunce and double duckyng made to the Kings honour spake after thys maner in effect When I consider our moste intierly beloued and lesse dread soueraigne lorde and natural Prince the louyng kindnesse the dayly labour and continuall studie whiche you incessantlye implore both for the aduauncemente of the honour of your Realme and also profite of your people I can not or oughte not excepte I woulde be noted not onely ingratefull to your royall person beyng my patron and preferrer but also a neglecter of my dutie a secrete mummer of suche thynges whyche doe touche youre inheritaunce holde my peace or kéepe sylence For all Authours doe agrée that the glorye of Kyngs consysteth not only in high bloud and hautie progenie not in abundance of riches and superfluous substance nor in pleasant pastime nor in ioyous solace but the verie type of the magnificencie in a prince resteth in populous riche regions subiects beautiful cities and townes of the which thanked be God although you be conueniently furnished bothe within your realmes of Englād and Irelande and the principalitie of Wales yet by lineall discent by progenie of bloude and by very inheritance not onely the Duchie of Normandie and Aquitane with the Counties of Aniow and Mayne and the countrey of Gascoyne is to you as true and indubitate heire of the same laufully deuoluted and lineally descēded from the high and most noble prince of famous memorie Kyng Edwarde the thirde your great grandfather but also the whole realme of Fraunce wyth all the prerogatiues and preheminences to you as heire to your great grād father is of right belonging and appertaining In which Realme to rehearse what noble persōs what beautifull Cities what fertill Regions what substanciall marchauntes and what plentiful Riuers are contained I assure you that time should rather fayle than matter waxe scant The fraudulent Frenchmen to defraude take away your right and title to the Realmes of Fraunce in the time of your noble progenitour King Edward the third alleaged a law vntruly fayned falsely glosed and sophistically expounded whereof the very words are these In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant Which is to say let not womē succede in the lande Salique This land Salique the deceitfull glosers fained to be the Realme of Fraunce This lawe the logicall interpreters assigne to derect the Crowne and Regalitie of the same Region as who would say that to that preheminēce no woman were able to aspire nor no heire female is able to inherite The French wryters do affirme that Pharamonde king of the French Gaulles first instituted this law which neuer was

diligently debated it and circumspectly foresene all such meane chances as might happen And when the end was concluded with al celeritie courage he furthered his pretence purpose Wonder it is to heare how he being a potentate of honor a prince of youth a Kyng of riches and extract of so hautie a familie didde continually abstaine from lasciuious lyuing and blynde auarice yea in the time of sinister chances he was no more dolent than in the time of victorie the which constancie fewe men haue or can vse Such a stable stomacke had he and such a grauitie was ingrauen in the bottome of his heart What politike practises and diuers deuises he ingeniously inuēted vsed in findyng sodain and resolute remedies for present mischiefes and what captainlike conueyances he frequented in the exempting hym selfe and his people in imminent distresses except he had shewed them in the couragious conflict and bold battail fiercely fought at Egencourt and in dyuers other places to the great confusion of the Frenche nation they might haue bene thought incredible In the which bolde battaile he victoriously vanquished with a small power of oure Englishe souldiers insuperable the floures of France fast buckled with boisterous bāds on their barbed horses holding sharpe speares and funerall weapons in their vnhautie hands also the bolde Britains with fiery handgunnes and slashing swords with the practised Pickards which caried strong weightie Crosbowes beside the fierce brain-sick Brabanders and strong Almayns with their long pushing pykes by his prudent policies he sodainly subuerted all these in the which combat the sworde deuoured aboue ten thousande persons wherof were princes and nobles bearing banners a hundreth sixe and twentie all the remnant sixtene hundreth excepte were Knightes Esquiers and Gentlemen so that of noble men and high blood wer slain eight thousande and foure hundreth of the Gallician armie And in thys furious battaile onely fiue or sixe hundreth of our English armie with two or thrée of the nobilitie were exempt from the fruition with eternall glorie of this incomparable terrene triumph Thys conflict may be a notorious mirroure and gasing glasse to all christen Princes to behold and folow and also a resonable testimonie and attestation of the worthie acts perpetrate by our famous King Henry the english Hector which was the blasing comete and glistering lanterne of his days He was the mirrour of Christendome and the glorie of hys countreye Hée was the floure of kings passed a seing glasse to such as should succede No emperor surmounted him in magnanimitie no potentate was more piteous or lorde more bounteous no Kyng had lesse of his subiectes and neuer King conquered amplier dominions whose fame by hys death as liuely flourisheth as his acts in this life were séene and remembred hée was the scourge of the Frenchmen and continually abated and appalled their courages yet he neuer putte confidence in hys owne strength neither in the puissaunce of his people nor in the fortitude of hys champions neither yet in the strength of his barbed horses or any whitte in his owne policie But he acknowledged God to be the onely cause and gatherer of these his heape of renoumes and victorious conquests in whom he put his whole confidence hope trust vpon whom he stedfastly ancored and firmely cleaued vnto in all his daungers as to an immouable rock or stedfast corner stone And he which neuer leaueth them destitute that put theyr trust in him remunerated his firme fayth with many glorious and triumphaunt victories of the whiche some might almost be thought incredible if we had not red in the booke of Kings that God likewise had defended them that put their affiance in him and committed them selues wholly to his gouernance This worthie Peragon amongest all gouernours remembred that a King ought to rule with witte grauitie circumspection diligence constancie and for that cause to haue a rule cōmitted not as an honor but for an onerarious charge and quotidian carefulnesse not to looke so muche on other mens liuing as seriously to consider and intentiuely reuolue hys own propre acts and doings for which cause he not so muche trusting to the redinesse of his owne capacitie nor to the iudgement of his owne wauering will called to hys Counsell such prudent and politike personages as shold not onely helpe to illeuate and sustein his charge in supportyng the burdeyn of his realme and empire but also incense and instructe him with such good reasons and fruitful persuasions that he mighte shewe hym selfe a singular mirrour ano manifest example of Morall vertues and good qualities vnto hys common people and louyng subiectes After that he had layde thys prudente and politike foundation he intended in his minde to do many noble and notable actes and remembryng that all goodnesse commeth of God and that all worldly things and humaine actes be more weaker and poorer than the celestiall powers heauenly rewardes determined to begyn wyth some thing which shold be pleasant and acceptable vnto God So that after hée hadde establyshed all things beyng in controuersies and variaunce within these his peculiar realmes countreys territories and confines to the same nothyng forgetting nor no one thyng more desiring than the extermination and ceassing of the long scisme and diuision sprong and continued in the catholike church of christian religion by the moste wicked desire of a Sathanicall swarme of wicked worldlings as contemptuous Cardinals bloudthirstie Bishops pelting Priours ambiti●us Abbots mischeuous Monkes filthie Frierlike furies and a companie of cakling Canons with a pestiferous plumpe of popish Proctors a troupe of trouncing Tyrants with other mo monstrous monasticall mirroures of mischiefe disordred orders of the vnsatiable Romish sea which nominated them selues spirituall Chyrurgians but in dede they wer carnal couetous and gréedie deuouryng gluttons aspiring for high honor and not for vertue to the licencious and proude rent rock of Rome where was and is frequented dayly wanton luxurious superfluous and vndecent pompes with dissolute maners neyther are they taken for enormities beyng permitted by their diabolicall dimigod with these peruerse fugitiues being alienated reuolted from Gods truth and ariued in the pensiue hauen of inexplicable wickednesse for which their diuelishe digression they shall be afflicted wyth condigne punishmēt and terrible tortours vnlesse they spéedily retire and endeuour to reduce them selues from the barbarous insolencie in the which they haue long loitered as the acclamations and earnest exhortations of the sincere Euangelisters desistyng any longer to protract the time to perseuer and participate wyth those raging Romists whiche desire more to pill than to profite Christes flocke and christian religion by sellyng of theyr polling pardōs which thei make serue in place of passportes for those whiche intend to peregrinate through purgatorie vngracious indulgences For these causes the Kings royal maiestie most graciously graūted establyshed a parliament in the second yere of his famous reigne to hys hygh honoure and to the